2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 8, 2010

2009 Stories by Camille Dodero

published Jun 08, 2009

We post this Bedford Avenue scribble in tribute to today's Williamsburg-themed meme: "Parents Pulling the Plug on Williamsburg Trust-Funders," starring one Hipster Sponger, who also happens to be c...
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published Jun 05, 2009

Finally pulling out the bullhorn on this weekend's permit-less backyard-and-rooftop festival, Hillstock, after initial concern for blowing up the event's spot. But, by now, you're either going or yo...
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published Jun 05, 2009

Dance Class, a Thursday-night party emceed by resident DJs Prince Terrence, Blu Jemz, and Dances With White Girls has been attracting people wanting to dance with white girls (and other kinds of gir...
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published Jun 02, 2009

Michael McKagan, better known as former Guns 'N Roses bassist/current Loaded frontman/guest-SOTC contributor Duff, has a 600-word piece in today's Times about his lifetime of experiences flying. Unli...
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published Jun 01, 2009

Deerhunter at McCarren Pool last summer, photo by Rebecca Smeyne
No Age, Deerhunter, Dan Deacon--the CMJ 2007 All-Star trifecta--just announced a summer tour, and the schedule includes an August 2 d...
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published May 29, 2009

Heavy Trash
Beauty Bar Brooklyn
Thursday, May 28
The Beauty Bar Brooklyn, opening to the public this weekend, is a soccer-goalie's kick away from the Myrtle J/M/Z stop, about a block from everybody...
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published May 29, 2009

Bumblefoot is Ron Thal, the axeman all over Chinese Democracy. Bjorn is the drummer of some band called Freak Kitchen. Pizza and caffeine is not rock and roll, nor is the Varvatos Store the Scrap Ba...
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published May 28, 2009

As if you needed more reasons to love the Dirty Projectors. With yesterday's mail came the official Domino press copy of Bitte Orca, an extraordinary gossamer of a record that snooty music jerks and...
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published May 27, 2009

published May 26, 2009

On Friday night in Bushwick, there was a "benefit for the legal aid" of the kids arrested during the New School occupation that ended up, by all anecdotal barbecue accounts, in "a mini-riot." The pa...
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published May 22, 2009

In the week that both Zach and Roxy Cottontail celebrated their birthdays, Rob posted a great moment in Wu-based subway-ad vandalism that became a whole shitload of peoples' Facebook profile images ...
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published May 22, 2009

published May 22, 2009

What's that, you don't have Summer Fridays, either? Yeah, so here is Food'lebrities, a blog of deliciously absymal celebrity puns that will be, realistically, the only other thing on the Internet be...
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published May 22, 2009

1. "[Nikki Sixx and I] talked about the upcoming Cruefest, and he told me that they would be performing the Dr. Feelgood record from beginning to end. He also reminded me of a time that I drove his ...
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published May 19, 2009

Real simple: more Siren Festival announcements. As always, it'll be free, all ages, and rain or shine, will take place on Saturday, July 18 and likely involve genitalia raps. Details below.SPANK ROC...
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published May 18, 2009

Conducted at the Happy Ending after-party two weeks ago by the New York Press:
Hi Ezra.
"Do I know you from somewhere? You look familiar."
We went to college together.
"Oh, yeah. You've changed...
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published May 15, 2009

There's been a tide of pre-emptive nostalgia for The Onion lately, given that America's Finest News Source ceased publishing two West Coast print editions last month and still manages to invent magn...
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published May 14, 2009

Davy Rothbart's third and latest Found book--Requiem For A Paper Bag: Celebrities & Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost, Tossed & Found Items From Around the World--stars a fantastically intricat...
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published May 12, 2009

Because we are juvenile and uncouth and easily amused, we generally prefer blogging about music videos that star naked people, but we'll make an exception for the Vivian Girls, since we always do. T...
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published May 12, 2009

published May 07, 2009

The official theme of last night's Happy Ending Music and Reading Series at Joe's Pub was "taking risks." Host Amanda Stern credited this idea to musical guests Vampire Weekend, claiming that she'd p...
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published Apr 30, 2009

This morning, Merge Records issued a press release on behalf of Julian Koster--former Neutral Milk Hotel member, singing saw savant, man from the Music Tapes--asking for help in preserving a Massach...
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published Apr 29, 2009

Today, L Magazine dropped their third-annual "8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear" issue. Cynicism is the knee-jerk response over in the Vegan greenhouse, which is bull: it's a fairly noteworthy achievemen...
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